Medicare’s Controversial Move: Rewarding AI Companies for Helping to Reject More Health Claims

17/09/2025 30 min Episodio 332

                    Medicare’s Controversial Move: Rewarding AI Companies for Helping to Reject More Health Claims

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James Keys and Tunde react to recent reports that Medicare will start paying AI companies what could be considered a bounty for every health coverage claim their AI software rejects, discuss how this kind of incentive will play out in the real world, and consider why the US has such a hard time addressing problems in its health care system even though there are so many working examples around the globe.
 
Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject (Futurism)
Report: U.S. spends the most on health but outcomes are among the worst (Association of Health Care Journalists)

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